As Donald Trump’s new advisory team prepares for his second term in the U.S.’s highest office, the general feeling is that the much-vaunted ‘Axis of Upheaval’ is at its lowest ebb to date. The aim of this axis – driven by Chinese money, Russian military aggression, and the respective destabilising Middle East and Asian presences of Iran and North Korea – is to replace the primacy of the U.S. and its key allies’ influence in global geopolitics with a multipolar version, albeit in reality with Beijing at…